And springiner, well, that doesn’t quite get it. But it is wetter in other places

For a few days and some hours Earth becomes cozier

Then comes the grey wind and the snow will be no welcomer.

* Indian Summer is a period of unseasonably warm weather that occurs late-September to mid-November. Late-19th century Boston lexicographer Albert Matthews made an exhaustive search of early American literature for the phrase.

It was clearly already in widespread use, and was so-called because it was first noted in regions inhabited by American Indians,or because the American Indians first described it to Europeans,or it had been based on the warm and hazy conditions in autumn when Native Americans hunted.